If a picture's worth a thousand words, what is a video worth? Here's video recently featured on Threadbangers about the vibrant craft community in my adopted city. The Sublime Stitching clip shows the storefront of Pink, my So-Co hair salon.
I really must get my priorities straight...I missed two really terrific craft events: Maker Faire/Swap-o-Rama and Stitch Austin. Check out photos of the Stitch fashion show (includes photos of Jenny Hart in a sock monkey bikini).
I was able to make it to the knitting night with Vickie Howell at Craft-o-Rama. We worked on ribby wristlets made out of her new Vegas yarns. Nice, rich colors with a hint of sparkle. Yummy.
Sublime Stitching's Jenny Hart lead a rockin' embroidery workshop at Austin's Craft-o-Rama. She told some great stories, showed us tips and tricks, and brought her original portrait of Marianne Faithfull for inspiration.
Jenny began working in embroidery in the summer of 2000. Her lavishly embroidered portraits have since appeared in exhibitions and publications throughout Europe, South America, Mexico and Japan. She's a fine artist known for portraits of Iconic stars such as Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithfull and Detroit's White Stripes.
Jenny Hart's portraits have appeared as illustrations for magazines such as BUST, Nylon and Venus. Her works are included in the collections of the Roger Miller Museum, actress Carrie Fisher, comedian Tracey Ullman and Elizabeth Taylor.
Jenny is also the founder of Sublime Stitching (Hip
Patterns and Kits for Crafters) and author of Stitch-It Kit and Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To (Chronicle
Books). Her mission is to bring embroidery to the masses. Her passion is infectious.
Her website: www.jennyhart.net
Sublime Stitching Kits and Patterns: www.sublimestitching.com
I'm also revisiting the 90s, 12-stepping, and my inner child with The Artist's Way which I find a little too dogmatic/OCD for the 2000s. But I shall take what I need and leave the rest.
In support of my figure drawing class, I'm getting into The Natural Way to Draw. That I didn't already have this one in my library was surprising.
My work with more self-help titles has been postponed, so It's All Too Much and Fat, Broke and Lonely No More have been shoved to the side.
Someone suggested that we read Kafka on the Shore. Any comments?
My movie meetup group and I went to see Across the Universe last Saturday, and in our discussion thereafter, I found myself [once again] thinking, "What is this generation going to remember as the great songs of their youth? It's all rap. It's all noise. It's so sad." Yes, I've become my parents. I find myself getting a tear in the eye whenever I hear John Lennon or any of the early Beatles tunes. They were just babies. Sniff.
Then, on second reflection, I think that the only really good original song that I've heard lately is what I could only call The Old Navy Sweater Song. With a little web surfing, I found my new favorite song/artist: Ingrid Michaelson, singer-songwriter from Staten Island who had several songs featured in last season's Grey's Anatomy. The songs are sweet and memorable and singable. Singing--what a concept!
Sidebar: Isn't she cute. She could be a vox-er.
Who's the coolest culinary celebrity?
Julia Child, the mother of them all.
A little ditty to learn before my Paris trip.
J'aime les ukes d'Hawaii Dm7 G7
J'aime les ukes deTahiti C C7
J'aime les ukes Beltona Dm7 G7
J'aime les ukes Kamaka C C7 (C)
J'aime tous les petits , ukulélés
Les plus rares , les plus recherchés
Les premiers construits par les portugais
Qui sur l'île maori ont un jour échoué
J'aime saliver sur les Martin
J'aime flaner vers Vérot Dodat
Les commander aux luthiers
Les enchérir sur Ebay !
J'aime les ukes Chevalier
J'aime les ukes « banjolélé »
J'aime les ukes résophonic
J'aime les ukes en plastique
Si vous en vendez un, ne cherchez pas plus loin
Vous en vendez deux ?...c'est encore mieux.
I love this movie.
I need to be careful as to what I love on the big screen. Films, and the characters in them, have a way of changing my life.
In this case, I find myself opting out of pre-nursing and looking into pastry chef programs.
This December, I'm going to combine vacation and a week at The New School for a course in CHOCOLATE. While in NYC, I plan to see the museums, take a few tours, and see plays (got tickets for Claire Dane's debut in Pygmalion and Kevin Kline in Cyrano de Bergerac).
Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a splendid baker. Be sure to see her in this film as well as The Great New Wonderful...and I may be seeing you soon at The New School (where they offer the basic stuff to get you ready to go to work without spending two years and a small fortune. Check it out The New School Culinary Arts Program)
I have been trying to bring my two selves (that is, who I am and who I'd like to be) together for decades. To that end I have a confession to make to the fat acceptance people. I am not a naturally fat person. I was a child of average weight. My parents were not obese.
A few months ago, while in yoga class, I found myself suffocating in child's pose and realized that this body is not working for me. The next day I went to Weight Watchers [once again].
This time, I am approaching the program as I did when I became a vegetarian. I would simply just do it, change the way I eat/live and not make a big deal out of it. I eat what I want in moderation and within my points limit.
I joined Gold's Gym at the same time and began working out with a trainer (came with the enrollment).
I have lost 18 pounds in about 10 weeks. Mostly from my boobs.
